Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Oct 11, 2021

  Old School Gaming But Addictive, Still Have The Disc Game From Its First Release, Have Been Interacting With It Since 2002, Still Trying Hard To Master It Badly, Play It For Hours And Still Enjoying It At 64yrs Old, Would Highly Recommend It. Big Thank You To Steam For Having The Game In Your Library
• dawerty98

  Apr 15, 2022

  Bought this game for the third time (2 times on discs, standard and golden edition). I had a hope that this one would be a fixed version... But no, there are still graphical glitches: ingame texts glitches frequently that it cannot be read; textures glitch a lot; no LoD, so when zoomed out it's slows down. Generally great project but written just to work, slighty polished for Steam re-release...
• nathansse

  Apr 29, 2022

  This is one of my favourite games of all time. I've played through it on four separate occasions, and I'm sure there will be a fifth. As of April 2022, the version you are getting on Steam is the upgraded Gold edition with all the additional content. The "hard" campaign is a challenge, particularly "Northern Sund" and "Christmas Bay". If you like old school management sim games which are not a walkover, then this is highly recommended.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 14, 2015

  A great tycoon game with a huge amounts of missions to play. Includes the expansion, which adds more goods, vehicles, and missions.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 15, 2015

  I had the original box version of this. Got it back when I was a kid. The box version would not run on modern PCs, but this steam version does run. I had only one crash. I guess the Devs did an ok job on remastering the game. The game sets you up in a role of an entrepeneur, you decide what your company will produce and sell. Sadly there is no simulation of inter-company trade. Eg. You could focus on being a supermarket. You grow your own fruit orchard, have a dairy farm, and makes wine to sell in your own chain of stores. You adjust prices of your goods and the demand-supply curve will adjust to your price. City grows overtime as you open new types of stores in the city (growth is VERY slow). You must control all three sectors of business (Produce. Manufacture, and Retail) and also manage logistics for your goods. It is good to play in campaign mode, deadlines forces you to make difficult choices, as your finances are limited and must be used in the most efficient manner. Eg. Would I set up a new production line (costs millions) next to a big city or would I buy a new cargo ship to supply that huge city across the map with goods made elsewhere? Would the transport cost break even or make a good return on investment? My advice is to start slow and do not grow too fast. The system is fairly simple when you get used to the quirky controls of the game. Warning: The ESC button returns you to the main menu. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.5/10 It's a good simulator, but it's not the best. It's a good test of macro management skill. It does not promote varying play-style, you will find one working formula and probably stick to it.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 15, 2015

  I played this game for hundreds of hours as a child and it's great to see it working again (the game is notorious for poor hardware support). For a 13 year old game it holds up fairly well, although it does have several usability quirks that stand out such as build and info menus only closing when you press the X button rather than clicking anywhere off the menu as is much more common these days. Selecting moving vehicles can be a pain as well and so selecting your trucks from the vehicle status menu is advised. Unlike many of the transport tycoon simulators out there, IG2 lets you manage the production of goods from start to finish. Each factory, mine, farm, refinery and so on, have their own production levels which change depending on the availability of resources. In other words, a ranch in grasslands produces more milk than one on a beach. This makes production more complicated as you add more stages of manufacturing before reaching a final product but the financial rewards are worth it. You also get to set the price of the products and place your stores in key locations to manage demand. Always make sure the demand is slightly higher than supply to prevent buildups of unsold goods in your storage areas. You can also export goods overseas for a reduced profit but the demand is always high. The range of goods available to export is slim though, conversely you can import goods for a higher price but without the hastle of producing it yourself. As the game goes on you unlock a vast range of products and vehicles from inflatable dinghies to luxury cars. The number of options is impressive but may leave players feeling overwhelmed with choices that often won't make much difference. One area the game does disappoint I feel is the transport side, although you can choose from lorries, trains, planes and ships there are few circumstances where the lorries aren't the best option, even over large distances. You don't get to set their route either so you can't choose to avoid a busy downtown area in lieu of the empty country road you just built. With trains you do get to choose which tracks to take, but you don't get to choose which platform they use and with a maximum of 2 tracks in and out of each station (2 per side if the trains turn around rather than passing through) bottlenecks at your large stations are an issue that has long since been solved on other transport sims. It is disappointing that this remains one of the best games in the genre, it is a good game certainly, but there are lots of little issues you feel would not exist if they remade the game today. I would also advise caution when buying as it will not play on many computers. I have owned six PCs over the years and this game has only worked on two of them. This version does appear to work better than the original with the Nvidia patch, but do not be surprised if you have to ask for a refund. It's a shame that such a classic can't be enjoyed by a wider audience. (It works for me on an Nvidia GTX 970 and on my GTX 770, both on Windows 10, since the issues seems to be graphics related you should be OK with either of these)
• gamedeal user

  Aug 15, 2015

  I'm going to save everyone some time looking through the forums waiting for the devs to respond. If you want to play the game, you have to run it in compatibility for Windows 95. That'll make it work. (Good game if it wasn't for this rather botched launch).
• gamedeal user

  Aug 15, 2015

  This is one of the games, that brings the "thumb up or down"-system to its knees. The game itself is not that much of a complex economic simulation. It's a resource-management game that gives you the opportunity to create stuff from resources and sale it in your stores. It's your job to organize the location of your factories and stores, plan lines of productions, set prices, watch surrounding cities growing and plan your logistics. It's a re-release of an older game, so don't expect high end graphics or fancy animations. The only thing you will hear, are some simple effects and different background music, which you will turn off at a certain point. If you like games like Transport Giant, OpenTTD or Capitalism 2 then you should take a look at it. The problem with this game is a technical one. Actually, there's more than one problem. First, like the retail version it seems to have trouble with every graphic processor that is not from stone age and as long as you run a newer modell, the game won't even start. You can prevent this, by starting it in windows comp mode (WinXp or earlier). Second, right now there seems to be a problem with some Win10 systems. The problem should be known by the dev team now and if the publisher wouldn't have a history of non-delivered patches, I could be optimistic. Third, there're some glitches and flickering that may occur under particular circumstances. Best advice to get rid of that, would be closing all programs you don't need at the moment of playing the game. Ok, there have been games with bigger problems and patching a game after release to make it more stable seems to be a common practice at the present time. But this case is different: These problems were known for years, long before the new dev team kicked in. I'm asking: Where is quality assurance? Did they do any Beta tests? If you buy this game now, you give the dev-team and the publisher a big advance for work there is still to do, to make this game consumer-friendly. Question is: Will they do it, if they hadn't done it in past? There is a very high chance, that if you buy this game now, you will have some kind of issue, but the good news is, that these issues are known to the community, waiting years for a stable version of this game. So in most cases there will be some sort of fix. The game itself is a economic goldie. If you get it running on your system, you will have a lot to enjoy. A smoothly rising difficulty, endless maps and maybe they will add a working multiplayer to it, but even without there are plenty of gaming hours to play. I recommend this game to people interested in economic simulation or logistic games, being aware of the technical issues. Waiting a few weeks, taking an eye on possible updates, is also a good idea.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 16, 2015

  I was so excited about the "restored" version of this game. After years of waiting this was such a huge disappointment. No trouble in launching it but multiple crashes during gameplay made this old gem unplayable for me, and seen the past of this publisher regarding product support I decided to refund it.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 16, 2015

  Its an overall good buisness game, reminds me of Transport Tycoon and Capitalism Plus. The game is slightly basic and gave me a couple of good hours of entertainment. I like how I can influence growth of a city and the transport network I can chose to make a depot hub or direct lines of transport. If I could change some aspects of the game I would want to impliment a stock system and more advanced production chain. ie, If I produced wood boards, I would gain saw grains as a bi product instead of one building, one product.